Improvement in cloak-fastenings



M. SILBERSTEIN.

Cloak-Fastening.

No. 220,094. Patented Sept. 30,1879.

MPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASNXNGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES -PATENT FFICE.

MORRIS SILBERSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IM PROVEM ENT IN CLOAK-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,094, dated September 30, 1S) 9 application tiled A March l0, 1879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MORRIS SILBERSTEIN, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Gloak-Fastenings, of which the following is a specicalion.

Cloak-fastenings have been made of cords, one of which is in the form of a loop, and the other is made with a cross-bar, as in my patent No. 197,498; and seal-skin slides to the cords with crocheted ring-borders have also" been made use of.

My present improvement relates to a cloakfastening, in which a hollow braided cord is used as a covering and attachment for a wire frame and tongue composing a buckle that is adapted to receive a loop of cord, so that a lstrong and handsome fastening is made, which cannot become detached accident-ally and I make use of ornaments formed of crocheted work upon metal frames, with seal-skin or fur center pieces, which are very durable as well as handsome.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the fastening complete. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the saine. Fig. 3 is a section of one of the ornaments at the line :v m; and Fig. 4 represents the buckle with part of the covering removed from the wire.

The loop a of braid or cord is adapted to be fastened at one side of the cloak. It may be plain; but I prefer to have the ornament b of fur covering theends, and also the ling-ornament c, and the drop d.

The loop e is of hollow braided cord.A It is also preferable to employ with lthis loop e the end ornament, b', rin g-ornament c', and drop d.

The loop a is to be passed through the loop e and over the tongue f in connecting the parts of the fastening. This forms a very reliable device for cloaks and other garments 5 and in order to render the tongue f sutliciently stift', there is a Wire-frame, f', similar to a staple, that is introduced within the tubular cord of the tongue, and the loop e is also similarly provided with a frame, e', of wire within the tubular cord, so that it is retained in the proper shape to allow the loop a to be freely inserted through it and passed over the tongue f in connecting the cloak-fastenin g, or the rea verse, in disconnecting the parts,Y The tnbu lar cord covering the tongue f is sewed to the cord e beneath the ring-ornament c.

The ornaments c c' are each made ofa metal ring, around which is a crocheted covering of silk thread or cord, and this covering is made of greater or less Width, according to the number of rows of crocheted loops that there are around the ring. There is a disk of velvet, fur, or similar material inserted from the back ofthe ring, so that the fur projects through the same, and the crocheted work forms aborder to the fur, and the parts are sewed together.

The drop -ornaments d are made on wire ringframes, the shape of the ornament, with similar crocheted coverings and borders, and with the seal skin or fur inserted from the back and sewed in, and the supporting-cord t' -for the ornament is placed between two rings or frames, crocheted as aforesaid, and sewe'd to the same, and the crocheted edges are also sewed or crocheted together. It is preferable to place a ball of fiber, such as cotton, between the half-pieces of the ornament, so as to spread the same into a globular form.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, in a cloak-fastening, of the loops a and e, of cord, with the tongue f, made of a tubular cord upon a wire frame, substantially as set forth.

2. The buckle composed of the tubular cord e upon the wire frame e', and the tubular cord, with an internal frame forming the tongue, adapted and arranged to co-operate with a loop, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 1st day of March, A. D. 1879.

Monats sILBERsrEIN.

Witnesses GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

